https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Request-for-the-EDU-Team-Youtube/m-p/243831#M4893 <P>I posted a few weeks ago about the issue we are having with Youtube. Hopefully someone from the EDU team sees this but we (admins) really need a more effective way of controlling Youtube. Right now (in my district) we're using a combination of Google Admin settings and firewall control to manage it but it's still not easy or completely effective. We need a simple way to allow any content a teacher posts in Google Classroom to be viewable by students but also a way to not let them embed videos in slides (to bypass restrictions). Shutting off the service and blocking the URL at least will not let them just go right to Youtube.com but that's only a small portion. We found that even doing that, if a site has a Youtube video embedded they can watch it still. We saw that with students using genius.com (apropos name!) for music class.</P> Tue, 19 May 2026 13:18:40 GMT kcalderw 2026-05-19T13:18:40Z https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Request-for-the-EDU-Team-Youtube/m-p/243831#M4893 <P>I posted a few weeks ago about the issue we are having with Youtube. Hopefully someone from the EDU team sees this but we (admins) really need a more effective way of controlling Youtube. Right now (in my district) we're using a combination of Google Admin settings and firewall control to manage it but it's still not easy or completely effective. We need a simple way to allow any content a teacher posts in Google Classroom to be viewable by students but also a way to not let them embed videos in slides (to bypass restrictions). Shutting off the service and blocking the URL at least will not let them just go right to Youtube.com but that's only a small portion. We found that even doing that, if a site has a Youtube video embedded they can watch it still. We saw that with students using genius.com (apropos name!) for music class.</P> Tue, 19 May 2026 13:18:40 GMT https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Request-for-the-EDU-Team-Youtube/m-p/243831#M4893 kcalderw 2026-05-19T13:18:40Z https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Request-for-the-EDU-Team-Youtube/m-p/244012#M4895 <P>when youtube stopped being supported as a core service we lost a lot of control over it. That combined with the idea that it should only be used by 13+ is part of the problem imo. Combine that with the fact that so many curriculum sites embed youtube videos into their sites it's a whack a mole at best. I have a health skepticism though that Google will do anything about it, their in the business to make money and adds in YT make them money.. They don't/won't care about the end user experience.&nbsp;</P> Tue, 19 May 2026 14:33:48 GMT https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Request-for-the-EDU-Team-Youtube/m-p/244012#M4895 techie49r 2026-05-19T14:33:48Z